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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Phoebe Craddock (Mia Farrow) first meets Jason Carmichael (Anthony Perkins) on his wedding day. He happens to be nude, and the rest of this comedy at Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theater is bare in other ways...
Part of the trouble is in the writing and part in the playing. For a boy-meets-girl play to exercise its potential magic, there must be beguiling charm and a contagious affection. Farrow and Perkins project neither. Farrow's Phoebe is naive without the endearing thread of home spun innocence. Her vocal habit of putting equal stress on each syllable, word and sentence leads to aural torpor. Perkins' Jason is waspish and petulant with out a trace of roguish lovability...
...hard to imagine why anyone would want to remake Hurricane in the first place. It is a dour period piece about miscegenation in the South Seas more than a half-century ago, in which the daughter (Mia Farrow) of Pago Pago's American military governor (Jason Robards) falls for the proud native prince of a nearby is land (Dayton Ka'ne, winner of a talent search in which everyone should have looked harder). The only hope for Hurricane would have been turning it into a send-up of the old tropical lagoony genre...
Still, all this has a bit more energy than the affair between Farrow and Ka'ne, who after endless delays are mostly directed to nibble each other's necks and take decorously clothed swims and beach walks to demonstrate their affection. Swedish Film Maker Jan Troell, who has made terse, beautiful movies (The Emigrants, The New Land), here seems merely distant and befuddled, as does his usually superb cameraman, Sven Nykvist. The poorly shot concluding hurricane is supposed to be a sort of heavenly analogy to human passions we have been witnessing at play. In the circumstances...
DIVORCED. Mia Farrow, 33, pixyish actress (Rosemary's Baby, The Great Gatsby);and Andre Previn, 49, composer, conductor and currently music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony; after eight years of marriage, six children (three adopted); in Santo Domingo...